DIRECTVÆ Announces Record June Growth With 142,000 Customers

First Half Growth Up 28 Percent Over Last Year

11-Jul-00

DIRECTV, Inc., a unit of Hughes Electronics Corporation, announced its high-power DIRECTVÆ digital satellite television service acquired 142,000 net new customers in June, a record for that month. An additional 140,000 customers were transitioned to DIRECTV from medium-power PRIMESTAR By DIRECTV last month. Through the first six months of 2000, DIRECTV has acquired 857,000 new high-power customers, a 28 percent increase over the same year period in 1999. DIRECTV now has approximately 8.7 million customers, including customers subscribing to the medium-power PRIMESTAR By DIRECTV service. ""With local channels now available in 27 markets, we are experiencing accelerating growth in our core urban and suburban markets,"" said Odie Donald, President of DIRECTV, Inc. ""This month we are enabling retailers to offer new customers professional installation for $49 or less, and in August we will launch a national acquisition offer for NFL SUNDAY TICKETô, our most popular sports subscription package. Coupled with the forthcoming launch of new interactive and enhanced TV services in the third and fourth quarters, we have every reason to be bullish about our growth going forward."" DIRECTV continued to transition PRIMESTAR By DIRECTV customers to high-power service in June. The 140,000 customers transitioned to high-power service in June - which are not included in the 142,000 net new customers acquired by DIRECTV last month - brings the total number of conversions to approximately 1.175 million. At the end of June, PRIMESTAR By DIRECTV had approximately 435,000 customers subscribing to its medium-power service. DIRECTV is the nation's leading satellite television service and a trademark of DIRECTV, Inc., a unit of Hughes Electronics Corporation. Hughes Electronics is the world's leading provider of digital television entertainment, and satellite and wireless systems and services. The earnings of Hughes Electronics, a unit of General Motors Corporation, are used to calculate the earnings per share attributable to the General Motors Class H common stock (NYSE: GMH). Visit DIRECTV on the World Wide Web at www.directv.com.

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